Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To walk or go before.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To walk before.
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- verb To
walk before; figuratively, toprecede .
Etymologies
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pre- + amble + ?
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Examples
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Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the barbarous.
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Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the barbarous.
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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